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# IT Security Specialist

- **Company:** Skywalk Global
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Windows, Cyber Security, Intrusion Detection and Prevention, Network Security, System Center Configuration Manager, Software Vulnerability Management, Patch Management, Wsus, Qualys, Server Operating Systems & Platforms, Vulnerability Analysis
- **Published:** August 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=3edb5df57f7d551b

## About the Role

Network Security and threat detection, incident response and vulnerability management Required 10 Years

Hands-on experience administering Qualys, remediation documentation and patch management processes Required 10 Years

Microsoft SCCM/MECM administration. Required 10 Years

Experience with Vulnerability scan reports and remediation tracking, risk assessment and compliance documentation Highly desired

## Description

Interviews will be via Microsoft Teams

Planning, implementing, managing, monitoring, and upgrading security measures for the protection of DRC data, systems, and networks

 * Responding to all system and/or network security breaches

 * Design and maintain enterprise SCCM/MECM patching strategies for Windows endpoints and supported server environments.

 * Create and manage SCCM device collections, deployment groups, maintenance windows, software update groups, and deployment schedules.

 * Coordinate vulnerability information from Qualys with SCCM patching data to identify vulnerable systems requiring remediation.

 * Perform vulnerability-first remediation by identifying affected assets and determining the appropriate patch, configuration change, software upgrade, or compensating control.

 * Analyze patch compliance, deployment status, failed installations, pending reboots, missing updates, and non-reporting devices.

 * Manage Software Update Points (SUP), WSUS synchronization, software update groups, deployment packages, and Automatic Deployment Rules (ADRs).

 * Troubleshoot SCCM client installation, client health, policy retrieval, software update scanning, deployment evaluation, and content download failures.

 * Develop procedures for emergency patch deployment when critical or actively exploited vulnerabilities require accelerated remediation.

 * Package and deploy third-party application updates and security fixes where Microsoft updates do not provide remediation.

 * Create and maintain SCCM operational runbooks, patching procedures, troubleshooting guides, deployment standards, and rollback procedures.

 * Testing and identifying network and system vulnerabilities

 * Evaluating the organization's security needs and establishing best practices and standards accordingly

 * Taking appropriate security measures to ensure that DRC's infrastructure and existing data are kept safe

 * Perform scheduled and ad-hoc vulnerability scans across networks, servers and endpoints.

 * Work with server, endpoint, security, network, and application teams to resolve cross-platform remediation dependencies.

 * Tune scans and reduce false positives to improve data accuracy

 * Develop vulnerability metrics, dashboards, and executive-level reports

 * Conducting testing and scans to identify any vulnerabilities in the network and system


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